Leonaert Bramer

Venus complains to Jupiter in the presence of Mercury, after Jacob Jordaens

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From the collection of Seymour and Zoya Slive

Leonaert Bramer

Delft 1596 - 1674

Venus complains to Jupiter in the presence of Mercury, after Jacob Jordaens

Black chalk, within black chalk framing lines;

inscribed in brown ink, lower center: Jordaans

bears numbering in black chalk, verso: N^o 25

282 by 348 mm; 11⅛ by 13¾ in.

With Gropper Gallery, Cambridge, MA;
Seymour and Zoya Slive, Cambridge, MA

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Leonaert Bramer 1596-1674, A Painter of the Night, 1992, cat. 34

J.M. Montias, 'A Postscript on Vermeer and his Milieu,' Mercury, 12, 1991, pp. 46, 52, no. 18, fig.3;
J. ten Brink Goldsmith et al, Leonaert Bramer 1596-1674, Ingenious Painter and Draughtsman in Rome and Delft, exhibition catalogue, Delft 1994, p. 237, under no. 22, p. 238, fig. 21b, reproduced

Like the previous lot, this is one of a substantial series of large drawings by Bramer, all executed in the same spare but attractive black chalk technique, which record the compositions of paintings that were being auctioned from prominent Delft collections around 1652-53. As Michiel Plomp described in his thorough publication on this group of drawings, the majority of which are contained in an album in the Rijksmuseum, Bramer inscribed the drawings with the name of the painter whose works he was recording; some of the prototypes have been identified, some not.

¹1. M. Plomp, ''Een merkwaardige verzameling Teekeningen' door Leonaert Bramer,' oud Holland, 100 (1986), pp. 81-153